Gold Diggers of 1933
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Rather prescient.
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Well now... certainly not a singer one would see on America's Got Talent...but then, perhaps the tinny sound was due to the recording technology of the time...Cheers, RickO
The late, great Busby Berkeley! A choreographic genius.
Singer was Ginger Rogers.
So hip hop wasn’t the first to obsess over money?
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I have a minor in film and remember seeing that movie in a film history class in the early 1980s.
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
Indeed!
I have a few collectables from that movie -
a coin promoting it, a few print ads (not
in newspapers), and a few other things
I can't find around here.
(and I actually dated a Dean Martin
"Gold Digger" dancer in my younger days)
"Gold Diggers of 1933", the top "Coins in Movies" film:
Chorus girls sing "We're in the Money"
The film is discussed here also:
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/919937/coins-in-movies-the-ultimate-example-gold-diggers-of-1933
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All of those young women appearing in this pre-code depression era musical film are probably long gone. All glory is fleeting.
They'd be about 116 years old so a bit younger than your average CU poster.
The Nation tried very hard to stir up moral during the dark days of the Depression. By 1933 things did start to slowly turn around.
Still, there's probably more coins in the movie than were actually minted by the United States Mints in 1933.
Pete
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Watching “Bonnie and Clyde” on TCM tonight and after an early bank robbery where they kill a banker they duck into a movie theater where the dancing coin scene from “Gold Diggers of 1933” is playing.
Notice that the filmmakers used Charles Barber coin designs.
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"The Gold Diggers of 1933" was a remake of "The Gold Diggers", which was a silent movie released in September 1923. It was a "lost film" until a partially complete set of film reels was discovered in England in 2021.
The 1923 movie was actually a film version of a Broadway play of the same name from 1919. There were other "Gold Diggers" movies made after 1933, as well.
Here is an advertisement for the silent film that was likely produced in early 1924, a few months after the film's release. People in 1924 would have immediately understood the message that was printed on a worthless banknote from Germany’s 1923 hyperinflation.
1933 gold removed from money and inflation is off to the races.